Is 80 Really the New 60?
Old age looks and feels a lot younger than it used to. But the latest aging bromide stands on shaky legs.
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8 min readApr 22, 2024
How old do you feel? Like, in your mind. Odds are you feel younger than your chronological age, as a majority of people do. It’s just one of the oddities of aging, or rather our perceptions of growing older. As each of us puts on the years, and medical advancements help us keep going, we tend to push back the age at which we think old begins.